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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52279-52280
Title:: JOURNALS OF SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL, Secretary of State; 25 Aug. 1685-1 May 1692
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Formerly owned by Arthur Wills Percy Wellington Blundell Trumbull Sandys Hill, 7th Marquess of Downshire. See H.M.C. Reports, Marquess of Downshire, 1924. Sotheby's sale-cat., 31 July 1963, lots 594, 596. Two volumes. Octavo.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 25 Aug 1685-1 May 1692
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52280
Title:
Scope & Content:: TRUMBULL JOURNALS. Vol. II (ff. i+38). 'A Short Acct of my Negotiation att ye Court of Florence 1687' (f. 17) seeking unsuccessfully to arrange a marriage between Queen Mary's brother, Francesco, and the Grand Duke's daughter, Anna. Partly Italian and French. Preceded (ff. 1-16) by autograph cop...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1687
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52311
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; [18th?] cent.-1957, n.d. Paper; ff. 37. Folio. A. Letter of Marcel Proust to Princess Marta Lucia Bibesco relating to a presentation copy of Du Côté de chez Swann; early 1914. French. Published in her Au Bal avec Marcel Proust, Paris, 1928, p. 134. See also Add. MS. 52431, ff. 48-54. ff. 1-5. B. Two letters from Terence Hanbury White, author of The Sword in the Stone, to Dr Eric George Millar, relating to White's work on editing a printed bestiary; 1...
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 1-2 Princess Marta Lucia Bibesco,; biographer: Letter to,: 1914: Fr.ff. 1-2 Marcel Proust, French novelist: Letter to Princess M. L. Bibesco,: 1914: Fr.ff. 6-8b Terence Hanbury White, author: Letter to Dr E. G. Millar,: 1957.ff. 6-8b Eric George Millar, DLitt.; Keeper of M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, Latin, and Serbian
Date Range:: 1700-1957
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52334-52358
Title:: THE AYRTON PAPERS
Scope & Content:: Papers of William Ayrton (b. 1777, d. 1858), editor of The Harmonicon and musical director of the Italian Opera at the King's Theatre, and his family; 1771-1885. See also Add. MSS. 60358-60381. See B.L.J., vi, 1980, pp. 7-23. Presented by Miss Phyllis Alsager Ayrton, great-granddaughter of Willi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1771-1885
Extent:: 28 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52335
Title:
Scope & Content:: AYRTON PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 242). Letters and papers mostly relating to the King's Theatre; 1816-1829, n.d. Partly printed. Brown half-calf binding. Drama: Letter, etc., rel. to King's Theatre, Haymarket,: 1816-1829: Partly Fr. and Ital: Partly printed. London; Secular Institutions. Theatres. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1816-1829
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52335-52343
Title:: AYRTON PAPERS. Vols. II-X. Correspondence, etc., mostly of Ayrton; 1802-1885, n.d. Partly French and Italian. 52335-52342 are albums in which the letters were mounted by W. S. Ayrton, who inserted indexes, mostly partial, at the front of each album. Nine volumes.
Scope & Content:: Music: Papers of William Ayrton, etc.,: 1786-1856. William Ayrton, writer on music and impresario: Correspondence and papers: 1802-1856.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1802-1885
Extent:: 10 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52336
Title:
Scope & Content:: AYRTON PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. ii+147). Letters, etc., 'From Performers and others connected with the King's Theatre' (f. i); 1816-aft. 1831, n.d. S. E. Petroni: Letter to W. Ayrton,: circa 1821: Ital. includes: ff. 1-12b Giuseppe Naldi, Italian bass: Correspondence with W. Ayrton: 1816, n.d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1816-after 1831
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52337 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: AYRTON PAPERS. Vol. IV A (ff. ii+200). Letters, etc., 'From Composers, Performrs and other Musical Characters'; 1802-1847, n.d. includes: ff. 1-2 Robert Nicolas Charles Bochsa, composer and harpist: Correspondence: 1822.ff. 3-5b John Wall Callcott, composer: Letter to W. Ayrton: 1802.f. 6 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1802-1847
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52339
Title:
Scope & Content:: AYRTON PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. ii+227). Letters 'From persons more or less distinguished as Authors, Artists, or public Characters'; 1802-1857, n.d. Octavo. Red quarter-calf binding. includes: f. 1 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Mus.D: Letter to W. Ayrton: 1849.f. 2 Sigismund von Neukomm, compose...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1802-1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52341
Title:
Scope & Content:: vol. VIII, [1800?]-1885, n.d. includes: ff. 1-3b John Hodgson, Chief Clerk in Westminster Court of Requests: Letters to W. Ayrton: 1828, bef. 1838.f. 4 Arthur Howe Holdsworth, MP: Letter to W. Ayrton: 1829.ff. 6-9b Thomas Willett, schoolmaster, of Stockwell: Letters to W. Ayrton: 1813-18...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: [1800?]-1885
Extent:: 1 item

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